Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
The smart locker market grows from $2.64 billion (2025) to $6.29 billion (2034) at an 11.46% CAGR. But the segments are not equal: parcel lockers solve a convenience problem, food pickup lockers so...
The EU's Ecodesign rules for refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function — which explicitly cover vending machines for cold drinks — require manufacturers to keep certain spare parts avai...
Healthcare facilities are the fastest-growing venue for vending machines in 2026, at 9.47% CAGR — outpacing offices, transport, and retail. But the machines that win hospitals aren't lobby snack di...
Unattended retail is consolidating. 365 Retail Markets moved to acquire Cantaloupe for $848 million — a deal that drew an FTC 'Second Request' and the threat of mandatory open APIs — while Nayax ag...
PPE vending is moving from one-way dispensing to two-way dispense-and-return. The driver is returnable PPE — reusable respirators, hard hats, harnesses, and gas detectors that must be logged out an...
Australia's connected vending machine market is growing 10–14% a year through 2035, with connected units rising from 25–30% of the installed base to 55–65% — a more-than-doubling of the connected f...
